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The marital art of Ken Riley
Born 1919 in Waverly, Missouri, Kenneth ‘Ken’ Riley is known primary as a ‘cowboy artist.’ This is because some of his best known works were Crow Fair, Split Horn Bonnet, and Legends of the Mandan. As...
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That’s one ratty Corsair
A very well used U.S. Navy Reserve Vought F4U-4 Corsair (BuNo 96832) in flight from NARTU Los Alamitos, California (USA), circa in 1950. (U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No....
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Happy Birthday, USN
As you may know the 239th Birthday of the U.S. Navy (well, technically begun as the Continental Navy) is this week. In the interest of a birthday salute in addition to our regular Warship Wednesday, we...
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Warship Wednesday October 15, 2014: The Devil Dog of the Seven Seas
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. –Christopher Eger Warship...
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Navy Marksmanship Team struggling to pay the bills
Basic and advanced marksmanship has long been a part of the U.S. Navy going back to colonial times. Up until WWII, each ship carried enough spare crew (largely due to having to have big crews due to...
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Warship Wednesday October 22, 2014 the Overachieving Gresham
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. - Christopher Eger Warship...
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LCS 7 Detroit Side Launch
The Lockheed Martin-led industry team launched the nation’s seventh Littoral Combat Ship into the Menominee River on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. The future USS Detroit (LCS-7) was formally christened...
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Yum! Mines!
WATERS SOUTH OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA (Oct. 21, 2014) Mineman 1st Class (SW) Douglas Reynolds gives commands to the crane operator during deployment of the Mine Neutralization Vehicle (MNV) AN/SLQ 48...
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The Ghost of Ulithi anchorage
(click to big up) Task Group 38.3 enters Ulithi anchorage in column, December 1944, while returning from strikes on targets in the Philippines. Ships are (from front): Independence-class light...
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The Black Bunny
F-4J Phantoms from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron VX-4, “The Evaluators”, out of NAS Point Mugu and Naval Missile Center (NMC) China Lake, California 1975. They disestablished in 1994 and were...
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Fixing to make PBR glow in the dark
In the ongoing Southern Strike series of exercises (now in its 15th installment) some 52 units are duking it out over the Gulf conducting a three way fight between some very interesting opponents....
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Paging U-576
One of the 703 (that’s seven-hundred three) Type VIIC U-boats completed in WWII, U-576 was commissioned 26 June 1941, the same week that Hitler brilliantly invaded the Soviet Union. In the next 13...
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Submarines stacking up 8-deep at Navy yards
(yeah its broke down old Bulgarian diesel, but I’m trying to make a point here, bear with me…) According to Hampton Roads.com the Navy is falling seriously behind on ship maintenance and it is...
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Calling all frogmen: Combat diver crest test
Covert Shores has a quiz on combat swimmer unit patches which is pretty cool Note these include : Flotilla-13 (Israel, 1960s+) RAN Clearance Divers (Aus, 1952+) Kampfschwimmers (West Germany, then...
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Corsairs of the mountain
A half-dozen F4U-4 Corsairs of VF-873 (from NAS Oakland) flying in formation near Mt. Rainer, WA 1953. VF-873 hung up their Corsairs soon after this picture was taken and was stood back up in the 1960s...
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Warship Wednesday Nov 12, 2014: The Centennial State’s Dreadnought
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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You dont know Schenkl
Here we see a 4.2-inch U.S. Army Schenkl shell from the Civil War period. This specific one was fired into the grounds of Confederate held Fort Morgan on the Gulf Shores Peninsula at the Eastern shore...
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Navy establishes Squadron for ships that don’t exist yet
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 28, 2009) The littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) conducts flight deck certification with an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Sea Knights of Helicopter Sea Combat...
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Old Ponce ready to zap badguys
The USS Ponce (LPD-15/AFSBI-15) the last ship standing of the 1960s era Austin-class amphibious transport docks, has been floating quietly in the Persian Gulf since 2012 as an “Afloat Forward Staging...
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And away we go
Click to big up An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the “Royal Maces” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 27 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73)...
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